Elsa Godart: "It's hard to live in 2023. We think about meaning, about the link, and often we are not happy"

Emptiness is a subject that fascinates, ambiguous, paradoxical, as it battles in our minds, even our fantasies, between a fear of vacancy, of nothing, a vertigo of anxiety in short;

and a longing for “cleansing”, in the liberated place, for a joyful leap into the unknown.

If the writer Nicolas Bouvier inscribed this dialectic of emptiness and fullness (even fullness) in the delicate account of his travels in Japan between 1964 and 1970

), it was the philosopher Gilles Lipovetsky who sensation by publishing in 1983 his first book,

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With a terribly original eye, he x-rayed “the advent in our democracies of an unprecedented individualism”, a hypertrophy of the ego already overfed with information;

a narcissism prey to a diffuse malaise, said Lipovetsky, where we had "stopped recognizing ourselves in the obligation to live for something other than ourselves".

It was forty years ago... well before the widespread Web, the creation of...

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